Cyberspace is buzzing today with news of Medpedia, a global collaboration wikipedia-type project that will offer a massive amount of up to date medical and health information for free to anyone with an internet connection.

Medpedia is described as the "world's largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine". The information will be sourced from doctors, medical schools, hospitals, health organizations, all kinds of health professionals, who have signed up as volunteers to build "the most comprehensive medical clearinghouse in the world for information about health, medicine and the body", said the Medpedia press statement.